Last of the Failed Crop areas! - First Target Met!

[CRUSADER]

If you read the 2008 end of year results I set a target of 50 hammered for 2009. Dad & I have already made it breaking 51. We only had 44 the whole of last year!

Cut hammered of William 'the lion' - Scottish King 1165-1214 - only my second ever!
Hammered of Elizabeth I
2 Jettons - 1 nice think example I don't have!
2 Medieval beehive thimbles
Medieval purse bar
17th century sword belt fittment
RARE - 17th century token - 1652 IOHN EWIN of Cambridge making candles

What a great day on only 1.5 acres of failed crop (eaten by rabbits & crows mostly) - took 8 man hours.

 

[shaun7]

I'll give you 20 quid for it if you don't like it...

twenty quid for what

 

[Steve_UK]

I'll give you 20 quid for it if you don't like it...

twenty quid for what

The XP... have pity, I'm inbetween jobs...

 

[shaun7]

I'll give you 20 quid for it if you don't like it...

twenty quid for what

The XP... have pity, I'm inbetween jobs...

me too

 

[CRUSADER]

50 hammered wish i'd not told you about the xp now. Like the William Lion, did it make you think Steven when it was covere'd in soil ?.

Well maybe he saw what I got of one of his fields, and that along with your hint pushed him over.
But its good to help people (also detectorists)....

Woody, the honest truth is I had no idea what detector you used on my fields & I had no interest. I was happy with the Cortes & its found me many great items. They only reason I couldn't continue using it was because of my weak back etc... I researched all sorts of belt mounted machines & this one took my fancy. I've never been one to follow fashions or be convinced by others, I make my own mind up based on my own research. I always do my own thing.

Some good points there Cru...I'll ad my three peneth if Tesoro get there act together and make a lighter faster lobo I think personely that it will pi$$ all over the XP.

The XP in my humble opinion is over rated, and lousy on depth, the Minelab machines blow it out of the water, it's just the price and weight of them that put me of personely,

The only advantage it has is the recovery speed and it's pin pointing is better than the Minelabs (smaller holes) Sorry to go of topic of your finds mate

Not off topic really, & I totally agree. However, I actually find the XP hard to pinpoint versus the Cortes. as you say the main advantage is the quick recovery in trashy areas. I'm trying the 11" this weekend.

PS. I'm not so bothered about depth in ploughed fields, & I just heard that the minelab gets its butt kicked on trashy areas as its so slow.

 

[Harry_Morant]

Nice finds Cru, congrats on reaching your hammered target.

 

[CRUSADER]

Nice finds Cru, congrats on reaching your hammered target.

Cheers, m8te

 

[Trond]

Great finds.

 

[woody50]

50 hammered wish i'd not told you about the xp now. Like the William Lion, did it make you think Steven when it was covere'd in soil ?.

Well maybe he saw what I got of one of his fields, and that along with your hint pushed him over.
But its good to help people (also detectorists)....

Woody, the honest truth is I had no idea what detector you used on my fields & I had no interest. I was happy with the Cortes & its found me many great items. They only reason I couldn't continue using it was because of my weak back etc... I researched all sorts of belt mounted machines & this one took my fancy. I've never been one to follow fashions or be convinced by others, I make my own mind up based on my own research. I always do my own thing.

Some good points there Cru...I'll ad my three peneth if Tesoro get there act together and make a lighter faster lobo I think personely that it will pi$$ all over the XP.
The XP in my humble opinion is over rated, and lousy on depth, the Minelab machines blow it out of the water, it's just the price and weight of them that put me of personely,
The only advantage it has is the recovery speed and it's pin pointing is better than the Minelabs (smaller holes) Sorry to go of topic of your finds mate

Not off topic really, & I totally agree. However, I actually find the XP hard to pinpoint versus the Cortes. as you say the main advantage is the quick recovery in trashy areas. I'm trying the 11" this weekend.
PS. I'm not so bothered about depth in ploughed fields, & I just heard that the minelab gets its butt kicked on trashy areas as its so slow.

I have used the Whites XLT, Lobo, several other detectors, and the XP now for about 5 years I guess. Besides a few times with the Whites detector I have never pinpointed, I find the signal by x'ing over the object. I don't need to know the depth either, I consider that a dumb bit of data, I just keep digging until I find it. Since I almost never search grass, and never lawns, I just don't need to know those two things. I don't understand though what you say that the XP is harded to pinpoint versus the Cortes (because I have never used a Cortes I guess), but the XP does not have a button for pinpointing like some other machines. I guess you could put it in to all metal and do that, but why? Just dig it. I am as fast as you (-if not faster-) getting the object out so why bother? And if you say I will damage the item, the only item I ever damaged was back in the 80's (when I first started detecting and thought - because of the manuals - that people NEEDED to pinpoint) with a Whites machine in grass. It was a huge coin and I used a plugger (for the last time). It got a nice curve line on it, I guess that was the last time I ever pinpointed. Now I if I am digging grass I cut a large plug and the the earth. And never damaged anything since then.

Or do you mean that pinpointing with the XP is making a 'x' over the object?

 

[Silver Searcher]

50 hammered wish i'd not told you about the xp now. Like the William Lion, did it make you think Steven when it was covere'd in soil ?.

Well maybe he saw what I got of one of his fields, and that along with your hint pushed him over.
But its good to help people (also detectorists)....

Woody, the honest truth is I had no idea what detector you used on my fields & I had no interest. I was happy with the Cortes & its found me many great items. They only reason I couldn't continue using it was because of my weak back etc... I researched all sorts of belt mounted machines & this one took my fancy. I've never been one to follow fashions or be convinced by others, I make my own mind up based on my own research. I always do my own thing.

Some good points there Cru...I'll ad my three peneth if Tesoro get there act together and make a lighter faster lobo I think personely that it will pi$$ all over the XP.
The XP in my humble opinion is over rated, and lousy on depth, the Minelab machines blow it out of the water, it's just the price and weight of them that put me of personely,
The only advantage it has is the recovery speed and it's pin pointing is better than the Minelabs (smaller holes) Sorry to go of topic of your finds mate

Not off topic really, & I totally agree. However, I actually find the XP hard to pinpoint versus the Cortes. as you say the main advantage is the quick recovery in trashy areas. I'm trying the 11" this weekend.
PS. I'm not so bothered about depth in ploughed fields, & I just heard that the minelab gets its butt kicked on trashy areas as its so slow.

I have used the Whites XLT, Lobo, several other detectors, and the XP now for about 5 years I guess. Besides a few times with the Whites detector I have never pinpointed, I find the signal by x'ing over the object. I don't need to know the depth either, I consider that a dumb bit of data, I just keep digging until I find it. Since I almost never search grass, and never lawns, I just don't need to know those two things. I don't understand though what you say that the XP is harded to pinpoint versus the Cortes (because I have never used a Cortes I guess), but the XP does not have a button for pinpointing like some other machines. I guess you could put it in to all metal and do that, but why? Just dig it. I am as fast as you (-if not faster-) getting the object out so why bother? And if you say I will damage the item, the only item I ever damaged was back in the 80's (when I first started detecting and thought - because of the manuals - that people NEEDED to pinpoint) with a Whites machine in grass. It was a huge coin and I used a plugger (for the last time). It got a nice curve line on it, I guess that was the last time I ever pinpointed. Now I if I am digging grass I cut a large plug and the the earth. And never damaged anything since then.

Or do you mean that pinpointing with the XP is making a 'x' over the object?

Hi Woody..the pinpointing doesn't become a problem till you start digging big holes to find the target, which is ok...till you get on a croped field then it becomes a problem because you can do more damage to the crop.

I never found this a problem with the lobo because the target was always under the stem position on the coil, I have just found that the holes have got bigger since using the XP.

 

[Silver Searcher]

50 hammered wish i'd not told you about the xp now. Like the William Lion, did it make you think Steven when it was covere'd in soil ?.

Well maybe he saw what I got of one of his fields, and that along with your hint pushed him over.
But its good to help people (also detectorists)....

Woody, the honest truth is I had no idea what detector you used on my fields & I had no interest. I was happy with the Cortes & its found me many great items. They only reason I couldn't continue using it was because of my weak back etc... I researched all sorts of belt mounted machines & this one took my fancy. I've never been one to follow fashions or be convinced by others, I make my own mind up based on my own research. I always do my own thing.

Some good points there Cru...I'll ad my three peneth if Tesoro get there act together and make a lighter faster lobo I think personely that it will pi$$ all over the XP.

The XP in my humble opinion is over rated, and lousy on depth, the Minelab machines blow it out of the water, it's just the price and weight of them that put me of personely,

The only advantage it has is the recovery speed and it's pin pointing is better than the Minelabs (smaller holes) Sorry to go of topic of your finds mate

Not off topic really, & I totally agree. However, I actually find the XP hard to pinpoint versus the Cortes. as you say the main advantage is the quick recovery in trashy areas. I'm trying the 11" this weekend.

PS. I'm not so bothered about depth in ploughed fields, & I just heard that the minelab gets its butt kicked on trashy areas as its so slow.

Yes that's quite right they are next to useless on heavy Iron sites, but what i am now hearing quite a lot Cru, is that a lot of the best sites that are comming to light seem to be on grass,

also a lot of Celtic Staters comming of fields very deep and only the Minelabs getting them.

 

[CRUSADER]

50 hammered wish i'd not told you about the xp now. Like the William Lion, did it make you think Steven when it was covere'd in soil ?.

Well maybe he saw what I got of one of his fields, and that along with your hint pushed him over.
But its good to help people (also detectorists)....

Woody, the honest truth is I had no idea what detector you used on my fields & I had no interest. I was happy with the Cortes & its found me many great items. They only reason I couldn't continue using it was because of my weak back etc... I researched all sorts of belt mounted machines & this one took my fancy. I've never been one to follow fashions or be convinced by others, I make my own mind up based on my own research. I always do my own thing.

Some good points there Cru...I'll ad my three peneth if Tesoro get there act together and make a lighter faster lobo I think personely that it will pi$$ all over the XP.
The XP in my humble opinion is over rated, and lousy on depth, the Minelab machines blow it out of the water, it's just the price and weight of them that put me of personely,
The only advantage it has is the recovery speed and it's pin pointing is better than the Minelabs (smaller holes) Sorry to go of topic of your finds mate

Not off topic really, & I totally agree. However, I actually find the XP hard to pinpoint versus the Cortes. as you say the main advantage is the quick recovery in trashy areas. I'm trying the 11" this weekend.
PS. I'm not so bothered about depth in ploughed fields, & I just heard that the minelab gets its butt kicked on trashy areas as its so slow.

I have used the Whites XLT, Lobo, several other detectors, and the XP now for about 5 years I guess. Besides a few times with the Whites detector I have never pinpointed, I find the signal by x'ing over the object. I don't need to know the depth either, I consider that a dumb bit of data, I just keep digging until I find it. Since I almost never search grass, and never lawns, I just don't need to know those two things. I don't understand though what you say that the XP is harded to pinpoint versus the Cortes (because I have never used a Cortes I guess), but the XP does not have a button for pinpointing like some other machines. I guess you could put it in to all metal and do that, but why? Just dig it. I am as fast as you (-if not faster-) getting the object out so why bother? And if you say I will damage the item, the only item I ever damaged was back in the 80's (when I first started detecting and thought - because of the manuals - that people NEEDED to pinpoint) with a Whites machine in grass. It was a huge coin and I used a plugger (for the last time). It got a nice curve line on it, I guess that was the last time I ever pinpointed. Now I if I am digging grass I cut a large plug and the the earth. And never damaged anything since then.

Or do you mean that pinpointing with the XP is making a 'x' over the object?

I never use the pinpoint function, I just meant its hard to find exactly where its target centre is. Just needs getting used to I guess. I could do it with little effort before, now I'm doing two or three grabs.

 

[Curious The George]

Should be some kind of law to keep you from teasing us here in the Colonies. It is quite amazing what you turn up in farm fields.

 

[woody50]

Hi Woody..the pinpointing doesn't become a problem till you start digging big holes to find the target, which is ok...till you get on a croped field then it becomes a problem because you can do more damage to the crop.
I never found this a problem with the lobo because the target was always under the stem position on the coil, I have just found that the holes have got bigger since using the XP.

I guess you are correct there for sure, but I don't search cropped land so don't have that problem. If I did I would use a small shovel in any case.

 

[Tnmountains]

You must show us your museum. You always have the most interesting finds. Congratulations on achieving your goals.

TnMountains